New features in the Bookshare website
New features in the Bookshare website
Bookshare is excited to announce some new features coming in early 2012. Our team has worked hard on new tools and options to make using Bookshare even better. Here is a preview! We will tell you more about these changes before they go live.
- Audio Book Formats – Bookshare members will soon be able to listen to books on MP3 players or any device that can play MP3; DAISY audio playable on MP3 players and other technologies will follow soon thereafter. In addition, we will provide a file manager that will make downloading, organizing, and transferring your books easy.
- My Downloads – The My Downloads section will make it easier to find or search the books you have downloaded in the past, check the status of books that are still in the process of being prepared, and easily re-download books if you need them.
- Simplified Download Process – You will be able to set global download preferences for book formats. This will make it faster and easier for members or teachers to download books on behalf of students in their preferred format every time. You will also still be able to easily select the format type each time you find a book.
- New functionality that will make the administrative functions much easier for larger accounts, including the ability to filter by school and district and generate the list of the books they have downloaded that includes the student for whom each book was downloaded and the date on which each book was downloaded.
